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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Then the weight increased and he gave more line.
2 He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly.
3 At that moment he felt him stop moving but the weight was still there.
4 The newspaper lay across his knees and the weight of his arm held it there in the evening breeze.
5 His back was bent with the weight of the line across it and he carried the fish in his right hand.
6 He only noticed how lightly and how well the skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her.
7 He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.
8 He tightened the pressure of his thumb and finger for a moment and the weight increased and was going straight down.
9 It was the weight of the fish and he let the line slip down, down, down, unrolling off the first of the two reserve coils.
10 He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand, and he was asleep.
11 He held the line tight in his right hand and then pushed his thigh against his right hand as he leaned all his weight against the wood of the bow.
12 As it went down, slipping lightly through the old man's fingers, he still could feel the great weight, though the pressure of his thumb and finger were almost imperceptible.
13 He took hold of the line carefully so that it did not fit into any of the fresh line cuts and shifted his weight so that he could put his left hand into the sea on the other side of the skiff.
14 Just then the stern line came taut under his foot, where he had kept a loop of the line, and he dropped his oars and felt the weight of the small tuna's shivering pull as he held the line firm and commenced to haul it in.
15 Shifting the weight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged, for more than a minute watching the blood trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat moved.